Wednesday, 28 January 2009

More weight loss!

I'm awaiting the full details of tonight's body composition test but I can reveal that my overall weight has dropped to 15 stone 2 pounds! I'm very pleased indeed with that loss and it means I'm only 3 pounds away from my next target (95 kg in new money!). Remember, I was 16 stone 9 pounds in September!

To put it into perspective, 95 kg is the weight that I was when I finished the John O'Groats to Lands End run. Over the last couple of weeks, I've noticed that none of my jeans fit me anymore. In fact, I was walking out of the the supermarket the other week with a carrier bag in each hand. Imagine my shock when my jeans started slipping down and almost ended up round my ankles! I caught them just in time thankfully!

I've got a little target in my mind of being 14 stone by the summer. With the current work rate and diet there is no reason why I can't reach that target and possibly exceed it. None of this would be possible, by the way, without the support, encouragement and advice I receive from David Fairlamb and Mark Fleming on an almost daily basis. Watch this space for the full breakdown of tonight's Body Composition Test when I get it.

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I'm currently on a fundraising campaign to run 20,000 miles Around The World in aid of charities in the North East of England.

Whilst not pursuing a world record, the run is following two aspects of the Guinness World Record criteria used, not in running, but in cycling for “fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle”; To travel a minimum of 18,000 miles (28,968 km) and to travel through two approximate antipodal points (i.e. opposite points on the planet).

The purpose of using the criteria is to, at least, give credibility to the claim that I will “run around the world”.

The distance of my chosen route is 20,000 miles (32,189 km). The chosen antipodal points are La Coruña in Spain and Christchurch in New Zealand.

The run Around The World is split into 9 stages, some of which have been completed already: